Fei Fei Sun’s Amazing Vogue Italia January 2013

Now it’s time for some quality fashion news! My dahlings! You need to see this cover! Fei Fei Sun’s Vogue Italia January 2013 is beyond amazing! It’s just Fashion, with a capital F! Steven Meisel photographed one of the most beautiful Vogue covers I’ve seen in a long, long time!

(It’s hard to ignore Vogue Italy’s issues, huh?) For 2013’s first issue, called ‘Global Life’, they chose Fei Fei! It sure sounds interesting, can’t wait to see more than this flawless preview! Oh – which reminds me – there’s this backstage video you can watch after the jump – I was really impressed by the looks of this pictorial and I am, again, thankful to Franca Sozzani for encouraging the right fashion attitude through her Vogue!

Now for the technical sheet: Fashion Editor Lori Goldstein worked with the magical Pat McGrath who chose Dolce & Gabbana makeup and Guido who chose Redken hair products. I’m simply mesmerized by Fei Fei and her beauty! Especially since we watched Cloud Atlas a couple of days ago and I’m still under the Wachowski / Tykwer influence (if you have 3 hours to spare and sympathy for all things Wachowski, do try Cloud Atlas).

I should love this cover – it has all the hallmarks of a great cover – model; minimal text; beautiful styling & the mood. But once again this movement to make beautiful women look ugly is front & centre – the makeup / hair is hideous.
If the movement is forward why retro makeup? Even in the 1950s the makeup although heavy made the models beautiful. China Machado was beautiful not ghoolish.